[carnation]

Rush starts a month from today! We take them down that morning. The weird thing is that they go down on Sunday and move into a rush dorm, taking only what they need for rush. Then on Wednesday they take their rush stuff and move into their real dorms, although rush doesn't end until Friday. Finally, the parents get to return on Friday and bring the rest of their stuff down! I don't know who thought that up but I am so enchanted with having to go all the way down to southernmost Georgia for the third time in 2 weeks! (The oldest has to be in her sorority house by August 3rd for rush workshop.)

I'm trying to convince them to do rush threads, although they're still embarrassed by featuring themselves on a thread. It might be easier on me than phone calls would, although back in the pre-cell phone days, rushees were put on strict silence (anyone remember that?) and not allowed to call anyone. Dorm phones were even turned off and rushees were watched like hawks lest they slip off to a pay phone.

I have warned them, though, to be diplomatic! To not say, "Every girl in ABC chapter had rank BO," or whatever, since they now know so many GCers!

JAM, please thank your daughter for us! I guess it's not a rush violation since there are no DGs down there!